Toy wheel.



P. H. POMEROY.

TOY WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2, 1914.

1,124,654. Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

1HE NDRRIS PETERS co1, PHDTO-LITHD.. WASHINGTGN, D. C

PHILIP H. POMEROY, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY WHEEL.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

Application filed January 2, 1914. Serial No. 809,951.

To all 107mm it may concern a citizen of the United States, residing aty Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful improvements in .Toy Wheels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present inventionrelates to an improvement in toy wheels. y

The object of the invention is to produce a toy wheel adapted to be constructed from certain standard toy elements, and to this end the invention consists in the toy wheel hereinafter described and particularly defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred form of the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the wheel; Fig. 2 'is a sectional elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the hub parts; and Fig. 4 is a plan of an uncompleted peripheral band joint.

The illustrated embodiment of the invention is described as follows Two hub members 1 and 2 are associated together with their radial sockets 3 arranged at 45 degrees with relation to each other. These hub members 1 and 2 have flat central webs 4 provided at their centers with transverse holes 5. The radial spoke embracing sockets 3 are open-ended and formed with one side in the plane of the web 4. Each web is provided with a keyway 6 which gives into the transverse hole 5. In a hub member having four spoke.

sockets the keyway is arranged at an angle of 2295 degrees from the axis of one of the sockets. This construction of the hub members permits two of them to be associated together in interlocking position with their central holes and keyways in axial alinement and with the axes of the sockets of the two members lying in the same plane. The webs for the members thus associated form separated hub webs adapted to engage a shaft received in the transverse hole at a distance apart equal to the diameter of the sockets. These two hub members may be secured to the shaft by a common pin by forcing itinto the keyways 6 of the two hubs. A. pin should be selected which has a size slightly greater than the depth of the keyways 6 so that when the pin is forced into the keyway, it is pressed against the shaft with some pressure and more or less deformed in the act of insertion by engagement with the hub webs and the shaft. rl`he deformation of the pin and the pressure with which it is inserted are such as to cause the pin to hold the hub members on the shaft more or less rigidly, and, for the purposes of the use to which the wheel is put, with sufficient strength to cause some power to be transmitted from the wheel to the shaft or from the shaft tothe wheel. The sockets 3 receive the inner ends of the spokes 7. The outer ends of the spokes are received in holes in the rim indicated in a general way by the reference character 8. The rim 8 has a channel section. The web of the rim is provided with eight bosses 9 which are spaced 45 degrees apart and extend inward as shown, and have open-ended holes 10 therein to receive the outer ends of the spokes 7. The boss forms a slightlv elongated portion to receive the outer ends of the spokes and takes care of irregularities in the lengths of the spokes. The rim is discontinuous. The ends are not joined together except by the wheel band 11 which lies in the channel of the rim and holds the rim together and prevents the spokes from movement radially outward through the holes in the rim.

In Fig. 4 is shown in detail the method of joining the ends of the band 11. One end is provided with .a tongue 12, the other with a hole 13 semi-circular in form through which the tongue 12 is passed. After the parts of the wheel are assembled. the wheel band 11 is laid in the channel and the tongue 12 is passed through the hole 13, thus bringing the ends to the position shown in Fig. 4. Then the band is tightened and the end of the tongue is bent over, as shown in Fig. 1, to. hold the band in place.

The hub members are construction units which are capable of being used in the construction of a wide variety of devices. The spokes are cut from wire and lthe rimsmay be supplied in endless lengths or cut and shaped to the size of the wheel to be made. The bands will be supplied yin suitable lengths for the different sizes of wheels. It is to be observed-that the wheel is easily assembled by the hands with the exception o pulling the band tight varound in the chan-I Y nel of the rim and that the only tool neces v sary for this purpose is apair ofpincers. The sockets and bosses may be pinched upon the spoke ends, if desired. It is also to4 be noted Athat the` invention, viewed in itsbroaderaspects, contemplates a wheel whether constructed withone ory two hub members, as a wheel of less rigidity and strength 'can' be 'constructed with,` one hubv member and four spokes. Furthermoreit is to be observed that in the preferred form. of wheel illustrated in the drawingsy in which two hub members aresused, the two webs em,-

brace the shaft 14@ at separated ypoints and thereby hold the pin in alinement -withthe shaft, as' a `result of which the wheel is se cured to the shaftJ with greater security than if .only one hub' member were employed. Furthermore, it is a .feature ofthe invention that the portions of the hub which engage the pin by which the wheel is secured to the shaft are made of thin webssothat it is possible in forcing inthe pin which secures the hub to the shaft, to deform thel wheel. hub

web members or thev pin, or both, whereas, if the hub were solidit would be impracti-l cable with thefiingers and ordinary hand tools to force the pin .in to the hole in the keyway, because the vresistance. to the deformation kby distortion or cutting of the metal of the .parts'wonld .be so. great as to prevent. Y j,

4One feature of the *invention resides vin a centrally webbed hub member provided with.

Vspokesockets wherein Athe hole in thenweb.

is provided with-'a keygwayjlocated at an angle tov the adjacent ksocket equal to -one-` @fourth of the angle -between`-successivesockets, so that the keyway of two associated hub memberswill comemidway Vbetween two sockets, the one a socket of they one hub member and the yother a socketof the other hub member.

, T hehub member isnot claimed broadly herein.k v

,f The present invention is not limited to: theillustrated embodiment as it maybe .embodel iedin other forms within y,scope Loflth'ey following claims.

' I cla1m- 1. A toy wheel ,consistingv of ahub mem-4 ber having lopen-ended yradial spoke sockets and a central transverse hole, with open-ended spokeholes, in the sockets and' rim holes hub member and rim. Vand a spokes received connecting thel bandembraclng the spoke ends to hold the `parts ofthe wheel.

together, substantially asV described.-V v

2. A toy wheelc'onsisting ofa single sheet metal "hub Amember `,having radial,"spoke-emry hrac'mg. Sockets `and La .Centraltransverse the spokes,"substantallyas described.'

a rim provided ing holes for receiving the ends of the' spokes, and means' for holding the hub, spokes and rim together, substantiallyV as described. l

5. A toy wheel comprisinga sheet metal hub member having open-ended radial spoke sockets and a central transverse hole, a channel rim provided with spoke holes, spokes received in the sockets and rim holes for connecting the hub member and rim, and means for holding the hub, ,spokes and rim together,substantiallv as described.

6. A toy wheel consisting of a hub member having radial spoke sockets and a lcentral transverse hole, a channel rim member provided with spoke holes, spokes received in the sockets and rim holes connecting the hub-member and rim, and a band located in hub member havino' radial s' oke-embracin sockets and a central` transverse hole, a sheet-metal channel rim having hollow 1nwardly projecting bosses 1n the channel web for receiving the ends of the spokes, spokes` t supported in the sockets and rim bosses, and

means foi` holding the hub, spokes and rim together, substantially as described.

48. A'vtoy wheel having a hub consisting of twol hub members having central webs provided with central holes having keyways giving into the holes, such keyways being so located with respect to the spoke sockets that when the two hub members are asso.

ciated in interlocking positionwith the spoke sockets of theone hub member arranged at ldegrees with relation to the spoke socketsof the other hub member the keyways are in alinement, spokes supported in the spoke sockets the spokes, substantially as described.

9. A tov wheel having ay hub consisting oftwo hub members each .of which has four radial kspoke sockets arranged at right anglee toeach other and a central socket sup.- porting web provided with a central hole and a ,kevwav giving .into the hole locatedl atianangleofQQ degrees fromthe axis ofa.socket` 1kspokes ksupported in the sockets.

and .a rim, substantially as described. f

10." A hub memberfor toy wheels con-V` and a rim carried-by sisting of a central flat thin web having four radial spoke sockets supported by the central web and arranged at right angles to each other, said web having a central hole provided with a keyway located at anangle of 229,` degrees to the axis of a socket, substantially as described.

11. A hub member for toy wheels having a central web provided with a plurality of spoke sockets radially supported on the web and a central hole in the web provided with a keyway, said keyway being located at an angle to an adjacent socket equal to onelourth of the angle between two successive sockets, substantially as described.

12. A hub for toy wheels consisting of two hub members each having a web provided with a central hole and spoke sockets radially supported thereon, said sockets being located with one side in the plane of the web so that when the hub members are associated together in interlocking position the webs afford separated shaft-engaging portions, so as thereby to support the hub rigidly on ythe shaft, substantially as described.

13. A toy wheel having a round shaft and two thin separated shaft engaging webs provided with alined round central holes itting the round shaft said webs having alined key ways giving into the central hole.

14. A toy wheel consisting of a sheet metal hub member having radial spoke sockets formed so that one side of each socket lies in the same plane with the hub and the axes of the sockets lie outside the plane of the hub, spokes carried by the sockets, and a rim engaging the outer ends of the spokes, substantially as described.

15. A toy wheel consisting of a sheet metal hub member having a central transverse hole and radial sockets whose axes lie in a plane outside of and parallel to the plane of the hub, spokes supported in the sockets, and a rim having holes for receiving the ends o'f the spokes, substantially as described.

16. A toy wheel consisting of two hub members each having a central web supporting a plurality of sockets adapted to receive spokes, one side of said sockets being in the same plane with the web, said hub members being so positioned that the axes of the sockets lie in the same plane, spokes in said sockets, a rim provided with holes to receive the outer end of said spokes, and a band embracing said rim, substantially as described.

17. A toy wheel consisting of a hub comprising two centrally-webbed hub members supporting radial spoke sockets arranged so that the sockets of one hub member are disposed between the sockets of the other, the axes of the sockets lying in a plane parallel to and outside of the planes of the hub members, spokes in the sockets, a rim engaging the outer ends of the spokes, and means for holding the spokes in place, sub-y stantially as described.

PHILIP H. POMEROY.

Witnesses:

HORACE VAN EVEREN, EMANUEL BACKER.

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